Bowling score-board.



No. 892,153. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908. M. J. HARWOOD.

BOWLING SCORE BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL J. HARWOOD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BOWLING SCORE-BOARD.

Application filed January 14, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MronAEL J. HARwooD, citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bowling Score- Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a score board, particularly adapted and intended for keeping the score on bowling alleys, and comprising a frame supporting upper and lower rolls, betweenwhich a sheet or web of paper is connected so that the paper maybe turned to proper position to receive the score for successive games. As constructed,the device has a roll of paper at each side so that it may be placed between twoalleys, to receive the score of each.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the score board. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Fig. 3 is a top view. Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the shafts or rollers on which the paper is wound. Figs. 5 and 6 are details of supports or arms to hold the rolls in place, and to permit their removal when desired.

The frame of the machine has a standard 1 at one end and a standard 3 at the other. The former is mounted upon arched legs 2 which are formed to straddle the end of the trough in which the balls lie, the board being conveniently set up above the end of the trough. The standard 3 is fastened to the floor by braces 4. The uprights support a pair of boards 8, one on each side, over which the paper passes, and the boards serve as a backing so that the scores may be written on the paper, which is suitably prepared for the purpose. Each sheet or web passes from a lower roll 11 under a cross piece 9, over the board 8, and under an upper cross piece 7, and is then wound into an upper roll 6. The lower rolls are supported by cross arms 21 at opposite ends, which have bearings to receive the rollers or shafts 23 on which the paper is wound. The upper rolls are supported by arms 16 at opposite ends, each roll being supported or carried by a shaft 13 on which the paper is wound. The cross arms 16 have holes 28 in one end and slots 26 in the other, and the holes receive the ends of the rollers 13, and the slots receive said rollers between Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Serial No. 410,816.

two collars 15 thereon, and the collars serve to keep the rollers in place, the slots, however, allowing the same to be removed whenever desired. Each roller has a knob 14 at one end by which it may be turned. The sheet of paper is marked with spaces to receive the names 01 the players and the several and total scores, as well as a column to indicate payments on the game. The cross bar 7 has marks corresponding to the columns, and the cross bar 9 has a chalk holder 10.

In use, the paper on the respective rolls is turned up as fast as the games are played and the spaces are filled, to bring new spaces into proper position in front of the board 8, and said paper will receive the names of the players and the scores of each. Space isnot wasted, since the paper need be turned up only to the extent used, and a whole sheet does not have to be thrown away as where separate sheets are employed for each game. The Web of paper may be made long enough to last several days, the trouble of tearing ofl sheets after each game, as well as the dis order incident thereto, is saved, and at the same time a permanent record may be preserved. The device will insure proprietors against dishonest employees as the rolls will afford means for verifying the cash taken in, since the number of games played and the names of the players in each game will be shown. The duplicate arrangement enables two boards to be mounted on one supporting frame. The upper and lower cross pieces 7 and 9, under which the webs pass, serve to hold said webs closely against the surface of the boards 8, and also provide sufficient tension to prevent any looseness or slack.

I claim:

A scoring device comprisingapair of standards with upper and lower cross arms thereon, upper and lower rollers supported by said arms, a web connected to the rollers and extending between the same, a backing board secured to the standards between the rollers and behind the web, and cross pieces secured to the standards above and below the board and in front of the web.

In testimony whereof I aHiX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

, MICHAEL J. HARWOOD.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. BOMMHARDT, MONROE E. MILLER. 

